In April, the Israeli occupation introduced a death penalty exclusively for Palestinians. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir celebrated the vote on the Knesset floor with a bottle of champagne.

The practice is not new. In 1937, the British Mandate introduced military tribunals to deliver quick death sentences to Palestinians convicted even of minor crimes. Then, as now, the penalty is designed to terrorize Palestinians and make their lives — and their resistance to colonial occupation — intolerable.

On 17 May, we are convening a webinar to examine the realities of incarceration, capital punishment, and the expanding architecture of repression in the Zionist settler-colony.